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American organist and organ scholar of Westminster Abbey, Carolyn Craig has been appointed Junior Fellow at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, part of Birmingham City University.   She will take up the appointment in January 2024.

MMus graduate Sylvia (Yen-Ju) Chen and her team recently won a prestigious Taiwan Golden Bell Award in the ‘Best Sound Design for Television Series’ category. Built from the ground up by six friends, Sylvia’s company  SoundMe Studio provides music and sound post-production services for film and...

A new play that challenges toxic masculinity and confronts the pressures facing young men in the contemporary world will debut in Birmingham next week .

Second-year Music students Hannah Devereux and Millie Royle recently reached the final of the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary competition. They both received the Collingworth Finalist prize of £100.

RBC Principal and former Chief Executive of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) Stephen Maddock shares a message as he completes his first six months in post. He reflects on his recent visit to China and looks ahead in the lead-up to Christmas.

RBC hosted bestselling Indian author and diplomat Amish Tripathi in the Bradshaw Hall on 12 October to celebrate the launch of his new book ‘War of Lanka’ published by Harper Collins.

Acting alumnus Nigel Boyle delivered a masterclass to Acting students this week. The famous alumnus, who is well known for his role as ‘H’ in Line of Duty, gave advice to students on how to be successful in the industry.

Visiting Lecturer in Composition Dr Bobbie-Jane Gardner’s piece ‘True Self’ has been shortlisted from some 100 applications to be performed at the annual International Society for Contemporary Music Festival in the Faroe Islands.

‘Lights’, a film by fourth-year BMus student Kinna Whitehead, featured at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Kinna also scooped The Arts Club longstanding prize for talent.

RBC Principal and former Chief Executive of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) Stephen Maddock reflects on the beginning of term, a masterclass with CBSO Chief Conductor Kazuki Yamada and RBC’s excellent rankings in two national league tables.

Birmingham Record Company, RBC's in-house record label, has its 20th release out today. It's titled ‘Janus’ and is by MMus graduate, Visiting Lecturer and PhD candidate Melinda Maxwell.

Professor Martin Fautley shares international approaches to incorporating music composition in teaching and learning in his new book.

It has been 20 years since the first Jazz graduates emerged from the newly-established BMus Jazz course at the Birmingham Conservatoire. Jeremy Price , Head of Jazz at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, had been running Jazz modules at the Conservatoire since the mid-Nineties, but it wasn’t until 1999 that Jeremy, along with former BMus Course Director, Mark Racz, created a completely bespoke course especially for jazz musicians. To celebrate the anniversary of the first graduating class of the BMus Jazz course, recently appointed Jazz Lecturer and 2004 graduate, Ed Puddick , caught up with eight members of the class of 2003: Lizzy Parks – Jazz Saxophone and Voice Dave Holland, Ed Johnston and Mark Hanslip – Jazz Saxophone Alcyona Mick – Jazz Piano Ryan Trebilcock – Jazz Bass Percy Pursglove and Sal Erskine-Furniss – Jazz Trumpet

Acting graduate and Strictly Come Dancing star Catherine Tyldesley will make her musical debut in Bonnie and Clyde, which is touring the UK and Ireland next year.

Conservatoire graduates were front and centre of BCU’s Alumni Festival Celebration, which took place yesterday (Thursday) at BCU’s Parkside Building. The evening featured performances from MMus graduate, violinist and TikTok sensation Esther Abrami, as well as an exhibition featuring the accomplishments of fellow graduates Samantha Oxborough, Shona Brownlee and Nicola Coughlan, alongside 21 others from across the University.